Monday, May 20, 2013

20 May - History and Importance of The Day


History events video
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325 A.D. - The Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of Catholic Church was called by Constantine I, first Christian Emperor of the Roman Empire. With nearly 300 bishops in attendance at Nicaea in Asia Minor, the council condemned Arianism which denied Christ's divinity, formulated the Nicene Creed and fixed the date of Easter.
1293 - Earthquake at  Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
1303 - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, India
1830 - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1835 - Otto was named the first modern king of Greece.
1891 - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1927 - Saudi Arabia became independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)
1927 - Charles Lindbergh, a 25-year-old aviator, took off at 7:52 a.m. from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, in the Spirit of St. Louis  for the first solo nonstop flight between New York City and Paris. Thirty-three hours later, after a 3,600 mile journey, he landed at Le Bourget, Paris,
1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She departed Newfoundland, Canada, at 7 p.m. and landed near Londonderry, Ireland, completing a 2,026-mile flight in about 13 hours.
1944 - US Communist Party dissolved

1972 - Cameroon adopted its constitution
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Cameroon

2002 - The independence of East Timor was recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).



20 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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